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Alexandria Extrusion Company Acquires State Of The Art Equipment Alexandria Extrusion Company announces its investment in an extrusion profile cooling system and automated press handling systems. Alexandria Extrusion Company, founded in 1966, is a precision aluminum extruder based out of Alexandria, Minnesota. Discovering innovative, value-added solutions to its markets’ needs drives the organization. A market driven mentality and precision manufacturing focus has created a great opportunity for Alexandria Extrusion Company to invest in highly automated, state of the art equipment to support its markets’ highly precise and rigorous requirements. The company’s relentless search for new and innovative manufacturing solutions brought it to Cometal Engineering headquartered in Brescia, Italy. Cometal offered a stand alone, multi-stage system, which features streamlined processes from the extrusion press to automatic stacking of aluminum extrusion lineal components.
Alexandria Extrusion Company is known for developing and investing in 40 years of innovative manufacturing practices and holds true to its preferred, historical existence in the aluminum extrusion industry. The company has become a market driven organization by creating solutions to market needs, while providing domestically enhanced manufacturing processes and systems to serve its customers globally. For more information regarding Alexandria Extrusion Company’s recent investment and how it can benefit you, please contact your sales specialist. |
Alexandria Extrusion Company’s new Balance Intensive Cooling System (BICS) allows immediate quench of an aluminum extrusion profile, preserving the extrusion profile characteristics, mechanical properties and tolerances while causing a minimal variance of cosmetic appearance from one cycle to the next. These benefits are achieved utilizing a quenching system able to produce a 900-gallon per minute water spray and 175 horsepower per 16 feet of forced air-cooling. Each aluminum extrusion profile is evaluated, programmed and process-repeated through advanced computer systems technology offered by Cometal Engineering and customized to Alexandria Extrusion Company’s manufacturing specifications.
Other stages of the equipment’s capabilities include a Dual Puller-Handling System, which maintains steady pull force on the extrusion, relying on the complexity and weight of the extrusion profile and ram speeds of the aluminum extrusion press. The Dual Puller-Handling System reduces dead cycle time from billet to billet and improves the straightness of product being extruded, to minimize scrap and improve overall yield throughout the manufacturing floor.